Now this is a strange feeling: Promoting my first book, "Wild Merseyside" on the Birdblog....packed full of stuff - birds, insects, plants, mammals - from around Merseyside and out to Martin Mere, and aimed at everyone from beginners to grown-up birders, the pocket-sized paperback is DUE OUT TODAY!!!
Seems like years ago that I wrote the thing and pulled all the pictures together, but since last December the good folk at Sport Media have been tenderly nurturing and designing the book, and now it's finally here!
Thanks to them all for all their dedication and hard work.
Selling for an astoundingly reasonable ã4.99, the 164 page book covers the wildlife of Merseyside through the seasons, with hordes of my own images, seriously enhanced by the proper photography of Steve Young, Richard Steel, Phil Smith and Andy Bate.
Thanks to them for providing me with pictures of species that I'd never have got decent shots of, like Little Gull, Leach's Petrel, Brown Hare, Gannet, Dune Helleborine, Sand Lizard, Manx Shearwater etc.
A digi-scoper has got to know his limitations.
"Wild Merseyside" should be on sale at any number of bookshops, newsagents etc around the region over the coming weeks, but you can also order it online at merseyshop.com here
If you don't want to order it over the web, you can contact Merseyshop by phone on 0845 143 1234.
I've even been asked to do book signings (which could be interesting), first of all at Broadhursts on Market Street, Southport, on Saturday March 14th, between noon and 1pm; then at Pritchards in Formby Village (Brows Lane) on March 21st, 10.30-11.30am, and later that same day at Pritchards in Moor Lane, Crosby, from noon to 1pm.
Why not come along and say hello?
And maybe even buy a copy....all contributions will be gratefully received!
Hope you like the book everybody...you never know, you might be in it - I've included four pages of your comments submitted to Birdblog over the last four years as an appendix.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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Hi John,
Best of luck with the book it looks a cracking little read and cheap at half the price.
I will certainly be picking up a copy.
Hope things pan out for you in the literary world now you have escaped "Castle Greyskull" as Mike Chapple puts it!
Some of us are hanging on by the skin of our teeth here!!
Hope to bump into you around and about!
Ian
Thanks Ian - all the best to you and the rest of the inmates of the OHS bunker.
Tides looking tasty for a bit of seawatching this week, especially with the hooley last night and the continuing balmy breezes.
Put me down for a copy of the book too John: I could hardly omit it from my shelves, given that I notice my lithe and lissome form is pictured huddled over a scope in a Formby Point gale!
Looks excellent for seawatching through this week, with strong though reasonably mild onshore winds and big tides right through to next Monday.
Don't suppose anyone knows which newsagents have got it???
Sorry Andy, I don't, but I do know Broadhursts on Market Street in Southport are selling it, if that's any good to you.
This looks great value, congratulations on the publication.
Hi the "Wild Merseyside" book is available at all good bookshops, 50 newsagents in and around Liverpool & at www.merseyshop.com 0845 143 1234.
Hi John,
Excuse the ignorance but does your book cover us here at IMF? Parkgate?
Either way I think it would be quite a nice little seller on our reserve - we already sell a few local bird guides, checklists and monthly journals - is this a possibility for us?
Hi Paul - "Wild Merseyside" does cover Parkgate and Inner Marsh Farm in the regional site guide at the beginning, and in pieces on where to watch birds of prey, egrets etc in winter.
I'll get the sales bods at Sport Media to get in touch with you...